Donald Trump’s vision of a realigned U.S. foreign policy is already threatening to destabilize the current international system and force the world to reappraise America’s role in it even before Trump sets foot in the Oval Office, some top U.S. foreign policy experts are arguing. Trump’s often disjointed and ill-informed remarks...

Estonian defence attaché in Russia has received an invitation to talks on possible military cooperation, but Estonian Defence Ministry called on Russia to fulfil NATO demands relating to Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine. …read more Source: Baltic News...

The news is all too familiar. A small country on the edge of Europe revolts against Russian authoritarianism, its young, pro-western leaders quickly becoming the toast of liberal cocktail parties from London to New York. The British press calls for military intervention to shore up the rebels: “How long will Russia be permitted”,...

Donald Trump sounded like a supporter of Ukraine’s territorial integrity last September, when he spoke by video feed to a gathering of political and business elites in Kiev. “Our president is not strong and he is not doing what he should be doing for the Ukraine,” Trump told he group of pro-Western businessmen, diplomats and politicians. “I...

Vladimir Putin has had no contact with U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the Russian president’s spokesman told NBC Tuesday. “We’ve said it many times before, President Putin has never had any contacts with Trump, never spoken to him, including by telephone,” Dmitry Peskov said. “The same goes for all of his staff.”...

The prospects for reviving the Turkish Stream pipeline project, which envisages Russian gas supplies to Turkey and further to Europe bypassing Ukraine, at least in a downscaled form, appear more promising given the recent dramatic improvement in Russian-Turkish relations, Gareth Winrow, independent analyst on Turkey, believes. …read more...

On February 12 last year, the same day that a ceasefire ended the worst of the fighting in eastern Ukraine between rebels and government forces, a former rebel fighter seized a chance to turn his inside knowledge of the conflict into hard cash. …read more Source: The...